A tool that allowed anyone to generate fake AI-generated imagery and superimpose it over real Google Earth maps quickly spurred backlash.

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• TechCrunch center

  A tool that allowed anyone to generate fake AI-generated imagery and superimpose it over real Google Earth maps quickly spurred backlash.
• The Atlantic left

  Google created an AI tool for users to doctor images on Google Earth—the latest instance of the AI industry undercutting its rhetoric about safety by launching products with little or no due diligence, @matteowong.bsky.social writes.
• The Washington Post left

  Google rolled out a new feature that let anyone generate AI images and superimpose them onto satellite maps of the real world. Just hours later, Google backtracked on the feature, after people had seized on it to create alarming, realistic fake scenes.
• Reuters

  Alphabet rolls back AI image generation in Google Earth over policy violations reut.rs/4pO9vmq